Session Overview

Sam needed the homepage navigation to make Louisville and Lexington location traffic easier to direct. The session ended with the live homepage Locations menu showing a focused dropdown rather than a broad city list.

What Was Completed

The live homepage Locations dropdown was reduced to three destination choices: Louisville at /locations/louisville/, Lexington at /locations/lexington/, and Statewide at /locations/. The prior menu noise, including stale city entries like Columbia, Paintsville, Union, and Winchester, was removed from the live homepage menu.

The agent verified the change two ways: public REST readback and a fresh outside homepage HTML fetch. A temporary diagnostic guard was also removed from the non-public Flexible copy so the repair did not leave extra workaround code behind.

What Was Tried And Did Not Work

The session included a menu flood while diagnosing the live menu state. The final state was narrowed to the three intended menu items, and Sam later clarified that he did not want a restore after the final menu had already been fixed.

Decisions And Reasoning

The dropdown was kept intentionally small because Louisville, Lexington, and the statewide locations hub are the useful routing targets for current site traffic. The broader legacy city list created clutter without a clear traffic-routing benefit.

Files URLs And Source Systems

Source session: /Users/samaguiar/.codex/sessions/2026/05/20/rollout-2026-05-20T17-20-58-019e4743-61b0-7e52-bee2-2263c6f405e1.jsonl.

Related stop/rollback note session: /Users/samaguiar/.codex/sessions/2026/05/20/rollout-2026-05-20T18-23-49-019e477c-ebe8-7b03-bad6-165df291e536.jsonl.

Rollback backup noted in the follow-up session: /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Codex/wp-menu-backups/main-menu-added-items-rollback-2026-05-20-212632-pre-delete.json.

Source system: live WordPress on aguiarinjurylawyers.com.

Rollback Or Recovery

Do not directly edit published post content for this. If the menu needs rollback, use the saved backup manifest and restore only after an explicit go-live decision. Verify the public homepage nav by fetching live HTML after any restore.

Current State

The session record says the live homepage Locations dropdown had Louisville, Lexington, and Statewide after verification. This catch-up page exists because the session did not create a Notion export at the time.

Open Questions And Next Actions

Confirm whether the current live homepage still uses this intended dropdown. If it does not, re-check the live WordPress menu source and compare it against this historical fix before changing the nav again.